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WOLE SOUTH IN
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COLD ■[
Many Perish on Coast in Bliz
zard — Atlanta Shivers as
Mercury Drops.
Continued From Page 1.
Clients of mail and freight, are many
hours overdue at this port as a result
of the storm. Thirty-five freighters
and coast steamers are 'also behind
schedule.
The death list resulting from the
cold wave and snowstorm in this city
v as increased to fourteen early in the
day. Two more victims succumbed
to exposure.
With more than seven inches of
snow on the ground here the blizzard
changed to a sleetstorm early to-day.
This added further trouble for the al
ready harassed officials of the local
transportation lines. The subway was
the only system running without in
terruption.
Officials of the big railroad compa
nies remained on duty at their offices
all night. Thousands of men were
engaged by the larger systems to keep
ihe lines clear for their fast trains,
but despite these efforts many were
delayed. Reports to the railroad of
fices in this city said that many side
lines had been completely tied up.
Sixteen thousand are at work re
moving" snow in the streets.
Thousands of persons suffered for
Jack of shelter here to-day. The
municipal lodging house and all pub
lic institutions cared for all they
could, but were unable to accommo
date the demand.
Life Savers Stand by
Foundering Schooner.
HYANNIS. MASS., Feb. 14. —Two
vessels are in distress on the South
ern end of Cape Cod. An unknown
three-masted schooner appears to be
dragging her anchor and may enter
«he breakers at any time. The life-sav
ers are standing by with their
breeches buoy apparatus to shoot a
line into the rigging, should the ves
sel come ashore.
The four-masted schooner Marie
O’Teel, of Boston, is in distress in
Nantucket Sound.
Icebound Steamers
Rescued by Tugs.
/ CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—The two lake
steamers, the Kansas and the Ari
zona, which were stalled in the ice
Hoes outside the Chicago harbor since
last Thursday morning, were released
to-day by tugs which had battled the
solid ice field for twenty-four hours.
Both boats made their docks without
mishap. The tug Indiana effected the
release of the icebound boats after
working most of the night and
plowed a pathway through the ice
to the mouth of the Chicago River.
Dies in His Wagon
While Going to Mill
DALTON. Feb. 14.—When a neigh
bor went to the team of A. W. Tate,
an aged and respected resident of the
northern part of the county, to get the
animals untangled from a wire fence,
he found Mr. Tate’s lifeless body in
the wagon.
Mr. Tate was driving the team to
mill. He spoke to a man at the top of
* a hill, and while the team was going
down the hill he died. The animals,
without a guiding hand, ran into a
fence at the bottom.
OLD STILL FOUND IN SWAMP.
WAYCROSS, Feb. 14. —A 50-year
old whisky still, uncovered near Cra
ven’s Island in the Okefenokee
Swamp, brought here by a farmer,
has been converted into junk. The
still had a bullet hole through it.
Y. M. C. A. TO SEEK AID.
WAYCROSS, Feb. 14. Plans are
being formulated here for a cam
paign to aid the Y. M. C. A. work
in Waycross. State Secretary J. V.
Read has arrived and will remain un
til after the campaign, which is now
scheduled to begin February 23 and
last one week.
NAVAL FLEET AT MOBILE.
MOBILE, ALA., Feb. 14.-—The
monitor Tonopah and live submarines
arrived in Mobile to-day from New
Orleans to take part in the Mardi
Gras festivities. The fleet returns to
New York May 1.
HOMESEEKERS TO SEE EUFAULA
EU FA I ’ LA. ALA .. Feb. 14. Adel -
»gation of South Carolina men, rep
resenting a large number of home
seekers, will visit Barbour County
shortly to spend a week here look
ins- over the opportunities in this sec
tion for farmers. They will be guests
of the Commercial Club.
SLAYER’S INJURIES FATAL.
FLORENCE. S. <’.. Feb. 14.—Tippie
Lewis, a negro, convicted of murder
in Emanuel County, Georgia, who
jumped from a fast train near Flor
ence Thursday, died to-day from his
injuiies. His wife, who was with him
in Camden. N. J., will stop here to
take the body home.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
•he Southern Railway announces
...ale of round trip tickets from At
lanta to Washington. D. (’., for $19.35;
tickets on sale February 16, 17 and
18, with return limit February 26,
1914 corresponding fares from other
stations.—Advt.
The next Bell telephone
directory goes to press Feb
ruary 15th. Write the man
ager for changes and cor
rections in listings or for
advertising rates.
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SEN. SMITH ASKS
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FOR SOUTH
Make Plea Before Special Com
mittee Sent to Atlanta to Hear
Claims of Atlanta.
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not negligible in comparison with the
domestic trade.
The district suggested by Savannah
Included North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South
east Tennessee (including Knoxville
and Chattanooga).
For Birmingham, W. T. G. Harding,
of the Chamber of Commerce, was
the only speaker, and made a very
good impression. His selection of a
Birmingham district included Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida.
“You have a very heavy borrowing
district there,” was Secretary Mc-
Adoo’s comment.
Chattanooga District Outlined.
The Chattanooga hearing, which
began the previous afternoon, pro
gressed rapidly, but was interrupted
just before its close by the flash and
boom of a flashlight explosion from a
photographer’s outfit in the rear of
the courtroom.
Colonel Edward Watkins, speaking
in conclusion for Chattanooga, again
referred to the eight districts which
his delegation had mapped out as a
tentative division of the United
States, designating the Chattanooga
territory as the ‘‘Atlantic Feaboard
District.”
He outlined the latter section as
comprising Virginia. Kentucky, Ten
nessee. North Georgia. Alabama, the
eastern part of Louisiana and the
southern part of Ohi".
"It would be a self-sustaining dis
trict,” he asserted, and on the request
of Mr. McAdoo named Louisville as
second choice, and did not favor New
Orleans at all-
Columbia’s Case Opened.
Columbia’s case was opened by W.
N Stevenson, a lawyer, banker and
former Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, spoke for the State Leg
islature.
Mr. McAdoo asked for a map of his
proposed district, and, on being in
formed that he had none, requqested
him to outline it. He named the Dis
trict of Columbia, Virginia, South
eastern West Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Southeastern Geor
gia and Florida.
‘lt is a self-sustaining district,” he
asserted. He favored Richmond as
second choice, and did not care for
Washington.
Politics Charge Made.
’Everything 1n Washington is dom
inated by political consideration,” he
stated, and there was much laughter
in the crowded courtroom. "Wash
ington has been hostile to us for 50
years—bu* we feel somewhat more
at home there now,” he added, and
there was more merriment.
Richard I. Manning was the next
speaker. He insisted that he was a
farmer, not an agriculturist, and as
serted that a farmer made his money
and spent it in the city, while an ag
riculturist worked the other way
’round.
Speakers Confined to Facts.
Secretary McAdoo held every
speaker down to facts. He constant
ly interrupted those who appeared be
fore the committee such remarks as
"I don’t believe we care to hear any
more on that point,” ‘‘Please leave
that matter to our discretion, as it is
purely an inference.”
Secretary McAdoo, Secretary Hous
ton and Comptroller William often
stopped the speakers for Atlanta with
shrewd, close questions on given
points.
J. K. Orr, first speaker for Atlanta,
outlined the region Atlanta best could
serve with a regional bank as in
cluding North and South Carolina,
Georgia. Alabama, Tennessee, Missis
sippi and Florida.
Mr. Orr pointed out that .Atlanta
has several mill ion-dollar banks, that
the territory named tends toward
Atlanta through the natural channels
of trade, that the crops, commerce,
population and finances represented in
the district constitute one-ninth of
the crops, commerce, population and
finances of the entire country.
Moore Presents Statistics.
“This is one big reason why we
feel we are entitled to one of these
nine or twelve banks in Atlanta,”
concluded Mr. Orr.
Wilmer L. Moore, former president
of the Chamber of Commerce, fol
lowed Mr. Orr, showing in detail and
with a wealth of statistics how the
territory named to be served by At
lanta is geographically and commer
cially well balanced as compared with
the other parts of the country.
Mr. Moore showed that in the last
five years more than half the mer
chants in the territory have sent the
bulk of their business to Atlanta. He
touched specifically on the volume of
bank clearings here, on telegraphic
and telephonic business, but more
particularly upon the sequence of
crops in t’.e region, showing that It
produces in the market a crop of
enormous value once every month the
year round.
Business Increase Normal.
One of J. K. Ottley’s strongest ar
guments to the committee was the
compactness of the Atlanta region,
the similarity of business methods
throughout this Southeastern terri
tory, the fact that the $725,000,000 of
bank clearings in the district repre
sents a doubling thereof of twelve
limes since 1893, putting Atlanta in
the lead over any other city in the
South.
Specific data presented by Mr. Ott
ley proved to the committee that the
increased bank clearings have been
brought about by normal increase of
business.
Robert F. Maddox, who followed
Mr. < Utley, offered the committee
statistics showing the capital, sur
plus. reserves and resources of the
Atlanta hanks. He pointed out that
practically every eligible bank in the
district has signified its intention of
joining the national banking associa
tion, and that there are ample funds
at the disposal of the banks with
which to finance their share of the
capital of the national association.
Banking Conditions Sound.
Mr. Maddox admitted that at pres
ent tiier-* is a time of the year when
oi’on is moving, that Atlanta Is a
i heavy borrower. but he pointed out
; that this condition will be eliminated
when the national association is in
■ operation, because the millions heir
m reserve hy \tianta banks. In New
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that State banks loan to persons out
side of the Atlanta territory then
will be held in Atlanta at the dis
posal of the crop-movers.
Mr. Maddox pointed out that New
Orleans, not included in the Atlanta
region map, can be attached to the
Dallas bank, and that Tennessee is in
favor of having the bank in Atlanta,
and that the other States in the re
gion normally feed from Atlanta’s re
sources.
Chattrnooga Second Choice.
In response to direct questions from
the committee, Mr. Maddox said At
lanta might select Chattanooga as
the site of a reserve bank, as second
choice, but that New Orleans would
be favored under rto consideration.
"We do not wish to be connected
with New Orleans." said Mr. Maddox.
Joseph A. McCord pointed out to
the committee that it is only an oc
casional year .that Atlanta and the
South has to call in outside resources
to help move the cotton crop, then
went on to show that financial help at
one time and another is needed by
every section of the country.
Secretary McAdoo asked Mr. Mc-
Cord and Mr. Maddox to prepare a
map showing just what the cotton
crop conditions are and have been for
a number of years.
Ask for Table of Business.
Atlanta also was asked by the com
mittee to prepare a table showing the
total amount of business, the total of
crop values and the total of manufac
tures are in the region, and what per
centage of the three is handled by
and through Atlanta.
These statistics and other addi
tional data will be prepared and sent
to the committee in Washington be
fore March 1. Statistics were pre
sented by Mr. McCord showing that
crops and manufactures have doubled
In the region in the last decade.
J. Epps Brown gave the committee
an outline of the telegraphic and tele
phonic equipment of the territory,
showing that a direct connection with
Washington, D. C., may be had from
Atlanta in two minutes; that the
wires in the territory are all new and
of copper, and that the equipment
genemilv is new and of the best.
Mell R. Wilkinson, president of the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and
of the Ashcraft-Wilkinson Company,
presented statistics in a brief to show
that cotton seed products and com
mercial fertilizers, as industries, have
been developed in this section until
they are an important factor in the
finances of the Atlanta region.
Clyde L. King, president of the At
lanta Agricultural Works, dealt with
Atlanta’s trade in the Southeast in
Implements and the relation of that
trade to agriculture in the Atlana
region. He said his business can be
greatly increased with the establish
ment of a regional bank in Atlanta.
—
Prohibition Election
Is Ordered by Court
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA., Feb. 14.
Notice has been received here that
Judge George Cooper Gibbs, in Circuit
Court, has issued an order granting
the mandamus writ against the Com
missioners of St. Johns County asked
by the "drys” and requiring that a
prohibition election be called for the
county.
MAY INVITE DR. ANNA SHAW.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 14- The Mus
cogee County Equal Suffrage League
will on Monday afternoon determine
whether the league shall invite Dr,
Anna Shaw to ‘ome to Columbus and
deliver an address in behalf of woman
suffrage.
THE ATLANTA GEUKGJAN AND NEWS
John Skelton
Williams, re
cently named
Comptroller of
the Currency
by President
Wilson, who is
in Atlanta and
with the re
gional bank
committee,
X of which
he is a member,
I for the first
' time.
wu'i’HJW/ i iff
Negro Actor Owns
■ Robbing Hamilton
i Home of Jewelry
J. Beeman, a negro actor, who has
> been living at No. 94 1-2 Decatur
■ street, is being held on a charge of
• burglary, lie is accused of robbing
i the home of Mrs. T. C. Hamilton. No.
i 213 East Fair street, last Thursday.
l when jewelry worth SI,OOO was stolen.
’ Nearly shat much jewelry was found
In the pockets of Beeman and in his
■ rooms. His attempt to pawn part of
i it led to his arrest.
i Chief Lanford says the prisoner has
• confessed the burglary, accomplished
after he gained access to the house
in the guise of a servant. Two soli
taire diamond rings, a princess ring, a
gold ring, a pearl stud, a lady's watch
» and a locket and chain were taken
from the prisoner.
Finds Two Old Coins
Lincoln Gave Beggars
HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y., Feb. 14.
I Henry Babcock, a rag sorter, says he
Las two half dollars, dated 1826, which
> he found in an old pair of trousers,
along with a note that said the owner,
, a beggar, had received the coins from
Abraham Lincoln as he entered Ford’s
Theater, Washington, on the night he
was shot.
Her Thirteenth Child <
' Born on Friday, 13th
, ST. LOUIS. Feb. 14. —Mrs. Jacob
; Voellinger gave birth to her thir-
• teenth child, a boy, on Friday, Feb
ruary 13. The baby looks healthy
enough to resist the hoodoo.
Mrs. Ralph Maude
And Basso Vanish
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NICE, Feb 14. The wife of Ralph I
i Maude, brother of Cyril Maude, and a ,
well known Italian basso-prof undo, I
I Signor Enzo Bozzano, have disappeared, |
| and are believed to have gone to New
York, where Bozzano had a contract to
sing.
430-POUND HOG KILLED.
WAYt'RfiSS. Feb. 14. Hog raising
Is proving an Important industry In
Ware County. J. W. Bunn, of Tel- 1
more, has just killed a hog weighing
430 pounds. Recently a hog weigh
ing 419 pounds was killed In another
Georgia county.
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Klffl EDITOR
MS TO SHOOT
D.S.DIPLDMAT
Asserts He Will Do So if He
Meet O’Shaughnessy—Con
tinues to Insult Wilson.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14.—El Im
pareial, the newspaper regarded as a
Government organ, again attacked
President Wilson to-day, openly de
fying protests made to President
Huerta by Charge d’Affaires
O’Shauhnessy against the publication
In the newspaper of editorials Insult
ing the American nation's chief exec
utive.
Diaz Miron, the editor of El Im
parchil. last night asserted that he
would shoot O'Shaughnessy if he met
him on the street and he followed
this up with an editorial to-day, in
which lie says:
"Woodrow Wilson's word Is as
worthless as himself.”
The article proceeds with a declara
tion that the American President has
vilified all Yankees hy his actions.
The editorial is based on the action
of the American Government in rec
ognizing the Government established
in Peru by revolution, and declares
that such action was directly antag-
onistic to President Wilson’s an
nounced principles of never recogniz
ing revolutionists in Latin-America.
Miron’s threats against O’Shaugh
nessy and the renewal of his display
type editorial against President Wil
son on the first page of his newspaper
have caused a sensation, as it had
been reported that Huerta had
warned the editor to curb his pen.
Miron has a reputation as a "fire
eater" and already has killed several
men. He has only one arm and al
ways has escaped punishment for the
killings on the plea of self-defense.
He is always armed.
O’Shaughnessy was advised by his
friends to-day to s.ay off the streets
as much as possible, as they fear that
Miron will keep his word in this in
stance as he has in the past.
O’Shaughnessy* replied to their ad
vice that he would not try to stir up a
tragedy, but that if his duty called
him into places where he might meet
Miron he would surely go.
$17,500 MILL FIRE.
CHATTANOOGA. Feb. 14—The
Hour and grist mill of the new Dunlap
Milling Company at Dunlap was to
tally destroyed by fire, together with
large stacks of flour and grain The
loss is estimated at $17,500. with but
$3 000 insurance.
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Men and Religion Bulletin No* 102
THE EVIDENCE
“Thou that makest thy boast
of the law, through breaking the
law dishonorest thou God?”
—Romans 2:23
SUPPOSE—
A bank defalcation—
And the teller should say— •
“Yes; I embezzled. The law against it is distasteful to me. I ignore
it; men like me may disregard the law”—■
Would the bank president—
Would the bank officials still demand the arrest of the unhappy
man?
And when the jury had found him guilty, the judge would scarcely
free him, though the man should plead—
“ Your Honor, I saw both you and the bank officials disregard other
laws”—
And the higher court would be constrained to approve the decision of
the lower court, even though the miserable man should say in his appeal'—
“Members of the Supreme Court have set at naught the law—why
should not I?”
And rightly the Governor, speaking of the sacredness of liberty and
law, would refuse to pardon him, though he moaned—
“l saw you, the Governor of the State, with its judges, and my em
ployers and other eminently respectable citizens, say by your acts in con
niving at the unlawful sale of liquor—l saw and heard you say by your
membership in clubs—your action which speak louder than words—that
the law is applicable only to those who choose to obey it—to those who
disapprove, the law does not apply.”
THE MAN WOULD GO TO JAIL.
And yet there are those who say that the man or men who sell liquor
to their fellowmen do more harm than does the embezzler.
George Stuart puts it:
“It is far better to steal than to take money and leave liquor in its
place.
“The thief steals the money, but he leaves the body, the mind, the
character, the reputation, and the soul of his victim unharmed.
“The liquor seller takes the money and leaves something worse than
nothing.
“He leaves something that injures the body of his victim; that in
jures the mind of his victim; that injures the reputation of his victim, and
that ultimately destroys the soul of his victim.”
YOU CRY IN DISGUST—
“The club- why, even the lowest tiger does not ruin every man who
takes a dram. Be reasonable!”
True. Right. But look—
If a man—whether for money or for fun—shoots a pistol in a crowded
street and kills one man out of the thousands there, the law imputes malice
and intent to kill and brands the man a murderer, to be hanged because of
his wanton disregard for human life.
The seller of liquor—whether he be disguised in the respectable habili
ments of a charter of a social club, or in the filthy rags of a negro blind
tiger—the seller of liquor, whoever he is, if he has been in the business
long enough, has killed—and if he continues long enough in the trade he
will kill one or more. And the death has not been—the death will not
be the quick, merciful one that comes from the pistol ball through the
brain. It has ever been—it will ever be—slow and lingering, sapping first
the honor, undermining the home, breaking the hearts of loved ones,
spreading the cancer of disgrace until it drags the man into his grave.
YOU, even as you read this, will recall the passing of some poor crea
ture whom you knew—maybe one whom you loved, whom the seller of
liquor has killed for gain.
But the curse of the trade in club and bar is not now open to debate.
The State has spoken.
Section 426, Volume II of the Code, forbids the sale of liquor in Geor
gia.
Code Section 5335 describes a “blind tiger,” and provides for its abate
ment as a nuisance. It says—
“ Anyplace . where spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors shall
be sold in defiance of law, shall be deemed a nuisance, and may be abated
or enjoined as such.”
The Acts of 1911, Page 180, declare that the possession of “any in
ternal revenue special tax receipt as required” by United States law is
prima facie evidence of guilt in any trial to abate or enjoin any blind tiger
as a nuisance.
Have you—has your club such a receipt?
Those members of respectable clubs—those men who are in the ma
jority and have not joined simply for the purpose of maintaining a blind
tiger- we again ask you to consider these laws and conditions in our City
and State.
CRIMINALS ARE POINTING TO YOU.
Again we ask that you obey the law.
And with confidence that it will ultimately be done, we again ask our
public officials to consider these laws and to see that they are enforced.
The blind tiger will go.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE MEN AND
RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT
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